10/3
“A pretty girl complimented me and I did cry a little. Thank you queen you were gorgeous I hope you’re well 🙂 made my day!!!” What a day.
11/4
“Snapchat u just ruined my night by showing me one flashback.” My favorite is when Apple makes those cute little slide shows of the last person you want to remember?
Does anyone know Shadow the Hedgehog, like from Sonic? Anyway, ‘critical_stinker’ blessed us with “You have to be odd to be number one twin.” Shadow is of course the background of this message in case you were wondering.
“IDK WHO STARTED THE GRILL BUT WE GOT FIRE, BEER, AND A GUY NAMED CHAD DOING PUSHUPS ON THE ROOF [fire emoji] [skull emoji] music’s loud, cops hate us, vibes immaculate [bear emoji] if ur reading this u already late [huffing emoji] BRING ICE AND BAD IDEAS #SENDIT #PRAY FOR THE SOFA.” To be honest I included this just for that last hashtag. I can hear the frat guy who wrote this.
You know that song that’s like “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone?” That’s how I feel about warm weather right now, and one user captured this perfectly. The post hosted a photo of a large ship being bombarded by massive waves on all sides with the caption “How it feels walking across campus in November.”
11/5
My favorite flavor of post is ‘Obama when.’ The first one of this week went “Obama when he renews his glasses prescription: let me see clear.”
Never in my years have I seen the round-about in front of the University of Maine so backed up until this semester. I thought it was just because the university keeps overenrolling. One YikYak user kindly answered the mystery, writing “[Aroma Joe’s] magically summoned 110,920 unnamed [UMaine] students to make a long line at 7:30 am.” A picture of Sauron from ‘Lord of the Rings’ is stuffed into the bottom of the post.
11/6
“Bro, I used to sneak out of the house to go to parties. Now I sneak out of parties to go home.” Woah where’d that Uber come from?
“Always cold roommate vs always hot roommate deciding who’s gonna suffer today.” Our infamous ‘touchmytitos’ astutely commented “I feel as though it is sooo much easier to become warmer than it is to cool down.” An anonymous user replied “nah it’s definitely the opposite. if you’re too hot just open the window. if you’re too cold… well you just have to wait until the room gets warmer. maybe run your hands under hot water.” I never knew someone could be so wrong. Good thing ‘touchmytitos’ shot back with “So lemme put you onto these crazy things called blankets and hoodies, they’re game changers bro.”
On a truly serious note “rumor has it that women’s vehicles in Bangor are getting tagged with zip ties (and they’re heavily laced) as flags for kidnapping and human trafficking so if so if you’re a woman and drive through Bangor a lot, check your car.” Watch out for each other.
11/7
Today I’m so excited to feature the best YikYakception thus far: “Message from Rigel: Real quick yall I was reading through yikyak highlights via the Maine Campus (the UMO news paper) y’all are hilarious and big props to the person writing the yikyak section you have my support as my one Yikyak source! [heart emoji]” I am so honored, but I could not do it without all the incredibly questionable posting people do on this app.
“Turns out I am not built for casual.” It is okay none of us are.
“Waiting to enroll now I genuinely have to take lesbian bagpiping 101.” To be honest that sounds better than what I am taking.
Anyone see the truck on fire in the round-about? Luckily the driver got out safely and no one was harmed. With that in mind, “Bonfire at alltown BYOB!!!!” Right underneath that post was another that read “DO NOT GO THU ROUNDABOUT TRUCK EXPLODING.” Some people are so dramatic. The very next post was “truck on fire outside aromas.” What a great representation of the 5 stages of grief.
“Sometimes i think i should share some things with you guys but i get embarrassed even though it’s anonymous.” As the person who reads through these posts and types them out letter by letter I really wish more people were like this.
“I need a gf I can take to dennys”. One user commented “can i be a volunteer.” True love in the works right here.
11/8
Speaking of true love, “what if we watched the truck on fire in front of aromas together?”
“I do NOT have time to be sick, this is ridiculous.” I read this while being sick for the fifth time this semester.
“Anyone wanna meet up and just scream? We could get food after.” What’s up with everyone having the worst time of their lives this semester?
